Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-19

The burning of an apartment house AMI
three adjoining residences at Minneapolis
Monday, caused loss of over $1OO,OO.
It is announced that the epidemic o
Cholera in Italy has come to an END.
At the meeting of the Cook county board
Monday, committee was appointed to takt
measures to compel county officials TO MAKE
monthly statements to the board ana pa!
their surplus earnings into the treasury
monthly.
The civil-service commission has abou
completed a radical revision OF It's ruies
The effect of one important change Will OF
to curtail the powers of appointing Officers
G,neral Ruger reports that the Crows are
quiet aud submissive. In he recent sklrm1 I
with the troops four of them were killed
while on the side of the soldiers one corporal
was killed and ten privates were wounded.
The Iowa Soldiers home will be oren fol
inmates on December LIST.
Scott Ray and Charles Simms, who are
suspected of being the murderers of Frank
Harm, have been lodged in the Jail at Pitts
burgh.
The mayor of Vincennes, Indiana, has
issued orders that all saloons shall be closed
at IL O'Clock p. N. and on Sundays, and the
laws were enforced for the first time Sunday.
People interested in the religious instruc-
lion of the Indians have worked themselves
into an unnecessary state of excitement over
the annual report of Commissioner Atkins.
The commissioner does not, as has been
charged, suggest the prohibition of the
indian language in giving such instruction,
ut simply recommends that the savages in
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English.
A Mutiny occurred in the penitent1ary at
Nashville, Tennessee, Monday night, grow
ing out of the attempt of Waterman to
discipline q convict for an infraction of
prison rules. Two guards arrived at an
opportune moment and managed to put an
end to what threatened to become very
serious affair.
Two notorious gangs of counterfeiters
and criminals that have infested Louisville
and vic nifty for some Years have been COM
pletely broken up by government detectives.
DR.. William G. Ouchterlony, a young man
belonging to one of the leading families of
Louisville, Kentucky, committed suicide,
Thursday.
in favor of prohibition. The northern part
of the territory is against division, while
the southern part has given large majority
for it.
The New Orleans Pacific railroad, a branch
Of the Texas and Pacific, was sold, Thurs
day, for $4,0O0,0OO.
Word comes from Manitoba that the
Norquay government is in danger of being
overthrown, owing to the dissatisfaction
cause by its dealings with the Hudson's
Bay and the Red River Valley roads.
Rain is putting stop to the forest fires
that have been raging for some time in the
southern portion of Illinois.
John Schener, a farmer of Manitowoc
county, Wisconsin, is in Jail at Milwaukee
charged with running an illicit distillery.
1t appears that he has been doing a very
profitable business as moonshiner for a
number of years.
Four men were burned to death in gin
house on an Arkansas cotton plantation that
was destroyed by fire " ednesday.
An explosion in Rummel's powder mills,
at Toledo, Ohio, Thursday, destroyed the
buildings and caused a loss of $4,000. None
of the men employed on the premises were
injured.
Jacob Steinman, an old soldier of Water
town, Wisconsin, drowned himself in Rock
river, Friday, while laboring under fit of
temporary insanity.
William Green, brother of the reprobate
Amer, who was convicted of murder at Peru,
Indiana, has been denied new trial, and
was taken to the penitentiary.
The schooner Mystic, laden with iron ore,
went ashore near st. Joseph, Michigan, at
an early hour Friday morning. The
schooner is owned by Captain A. P. Read,
of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and is the third
boat that he has lost this season.